Archive for the 'Web' Category



Sorenson Squeeze is a very nice, multi-format encoding tool. This almost-entirely-Flash-focused update…
* Adds alpha channel support for the On2 VP6 codec
* Adds On2 VP6 Pro plug-in support for Macintosh
* Allows you to create embedded cue points for Flash
* Improves Flash Player skin templates for SWF and FLV
* Lets you create linked or embedded FLV for [...]

Essential Firefox extensions

These are the [Firefox][Firefox] extensions I can’t do without:
#### Everybody needs… ####
* **[CustomizeGoogle][CustomizeGoogle]** lets you turn on Google Suggest by default, adds lots of other links to many types of search results, and more.
* **[DownThemAll!][DownThemAll!]** is a fast replacement for Firefox’s built-in downloader, and lets you quickly download multiple links and images from a page.
* [...]

Google buys Blogger…and?

Google recently announced that they’d bought the company behind Blogger, which provides tools that let people build personal weblog-type sites.
The blogging community went collectively insane, and several near-histrionic posts followed. Most predicted that the purchase of Blogger by Google would spur a renaissance in personal expression or similar Utopian visions. I’m pointing to none of [...]